Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 2 | For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had . |
| 3 | For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area . |
| 4 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 5 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 6 | ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up . |
| 7 | Each year the 20-year-old comes up with two unique designs for Christmas cards and calendars which have proved extremely popular last year he sold 40,000 . |
| 8 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 9 | As his hand reaches out for mine , I recollect that at one point in those early post-war years I had a positive dread of men in uniform , and my terror grew in direct proportion with each extra pip . |
| 10 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 11 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 12 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 13 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 14 | ‘ … yes , by about one second in every 100 million years you spent up there . ’ |
| 15 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 16 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 17 | At the end of C.A. 1991 it was recorded that over the previous 18 years we had raised over £210,000 for the cause . |
| 18 | It is paradoxical , perhaps , that in these post-war years he came to enjoy his greatest fame and , in the end , happiness . |
| 19 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 20 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 21 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 22 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 23 | In these earlier years he eschewed biography as a path to understanding . |
| 24 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 25 | Carrie thought of bombs falling , of the war going on all this year they 'd been safe in the valley ; going on over their heads like grown-up conversation when she 'd been too small to listen . |
| 26 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 27 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 28 | Alter all these years I thought the man in our house was my dad , and he was n't . |
| 29 | ‘ All these years I denied my love . |
| 30 | All these years I tried to kill it . ’ |